Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

  • -- Edvard Munch 爱德华·蒙克

油画是一门发达的技术。为什么倒退?

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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

当我完成一幅画的时候,我拿着一些上帝创造的东西——一块石头,一朵花,一棵树的树枝或者我的手——作为最后的测试。如果这幅画站在一个人无法创造的东西旁边,这幅画就是真迹。如果两者之间有冲突,那就是糟糕的艺术。

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso, those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

世界上有三种人:无法忍受毕加索的人,无法忍受拉斐尔的人,以及从未听说过他们中的任何一个人。

I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.

我认为真诚是我唯一的美学和现实主义我的实验技术。

I don't have technique because I never learnt any.

我没有技术,因为我从来没有学过。